New Research Report Published: 'Impact at scale: The challenge of moving from pilot interventions to sustainable, widespread change'
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One of the biggest challenges facing market systems development (MSD or M4P) projects is designing and implementing interventions that consistently achieve sustainable, systemic change in market systems as the foundation for development impact at scale. Engagement with stakeholders throughout this research project showed that many market systems practitioners share the perception that examples of successful projects and evidence of impact at scale is limited, and that they are looking for ways to increase success rates of pilot interventions and of project interventions moving from successful pilots to impact at scale.
The report is based on a research project which focuses on interventions that work with and through private sector partners. The findings provide new and compelling evidence of the need to pay more attention to the commercial aspects of business innovation, and the value of more rigorous commercial analysis and strategic thinking, before investing in pilot interventions. In accordance with these findings, and drawing on concepts and methods of commercial investment analysis, the report provides recommendations on how the selection of sector interventions, intervention partners and target beneficiaries can be improved in MSD practice.
Taken together, the research findings, recommendations and tools will lead to an increased success rate of MSD pilot interventions and of pilots leading to impact at scale; allow MSD projects to engage with more sophisticated, value adding businesses higher up value chains; and allow MSD projects to engage with more sophisticated, value adding businesses higher up value chains; and allow MSD projects to successfully leverage third party development, impact and commercial growth finance.
To read the report: https://beamexchange.org/resources/865/
March 7, 2017, 1:47 p.m.
Sara Karnas